Attention, Please!

Attention, Please! (paperback)
Attention, Please! (paperback)
Paperback B format 128 x 198 mm. 92 pages. Full colour cover.
ISBN 978-1-922776-18-1.
Price: A$28.00
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Admirers of Peter Rose’s extensive body of creative work will join us in celebrating the publication of a new poetry collection, the first for ten long years. As the Australian literary community pauses to mark his departure from the leadership of Australian Book Review after 24 years in the saddle, we can expect new flowerings of literary work from his fertile pen in the years ahead. This collection is a rich mix of old and new. It continues the celebrated series in the style of ribald Latin master Catullus and adds in gleanings from a rich and complex editorial and personal life, well lived, as this unique Australian polymath enters a new phase in his life.

All the way to Verona

I will reverence your touch—

the long way there,

the dreamscape back to you.

Peter Rose

Peter Rose has since 1990 made a distinctive contribution to Australian letters as a publisher, as the longest-serving Editor of Australian Book Review (since 2001), and as an award-winning author across several genres. His family memoir, Rose Boys (2001) won several awards, including the National Biography Award, and is considered a classic of Australian autobiography. His first novel, A Case of Knives (2005) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Crimson Crop (2012), his fifth book of poems, won a Queensland Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. The Catullan Rag, his continuing series of elegies and satires in the style of the Roman poet Catullus, goes back to 1990. Attention, Please!, his seventh collection, is his first since The Subject of Feeling in 2015.